Howard A. Tullman

Howard A. Tullman
Howard A. Tullman, Chairman of Tribeca Flashpoint Media Arts Academy
Born (1945-06-27) June 27, 1945
St. Louis, Missouri
Nationality American
Occupation 1871 Chicago, CEO; G2T3V, Managing Partner; Chicago High Tech Investment Partners, Managing Partner

Howard A. Tullman is an American serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist, educator, writer, lecturer, and art collector. He currently serves as CEO of 1871 Chicago, Managing Partner of G2T3V, LLC, and the Managing Partner of Chicago High Tech Investment Partners LLC.

Early life

Born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1945, Tullman was raised in a "humble, but driven and competitive" family of eight.[1] He is the son of an apparel salesman and a stay-at-home mother (who later ran for public office in New Jersey)[1] and the eldest of six siblings.[2]

A seasoned entrepreneur by age 10 (having built both a candy racket and a magic performance business in his free time), Tullman and his family moved to Highland Park, Illinois in 1955.[2] Tullman graduated from Highland Park High School in 1963.

Education

Tullman attended Northwestern University for his undergraduate degree, graduating Cum Laude in 1967 with a B.A. in Mathematics and Economics.[2] He went on to receive his J.D. from Northwestern's School of Law where he graduated with Honors in 1970. During his time at Northwestern, Tullman was elected to the Order of the Coif and served as the Chairman of the Editors of the Law Review.[2] He was selected as a Ford Foundation Fellow and developed, along with James R. Thompson, former Governor of Illinois, a national Ford Foundation program for the study of criminal law.

Entrepreneurial career

Tullman's entrepreneurial career spans five decades and a broad swath of industries. As of May 2011, Tullman has started 12 companies, including Tribeca Flashpoint Media Arts Academy, CCC Information Services, Tunes.com, the Rolling Stone Network, Imagination Pilots, Experiencia, and others.[1] Tullman has also been tapped for senior executive positions at established institutions such as Coin Inc., Worldwide Xceed and Kendall College, where his expertise in turn-arounds saved the school from going into bankruptcy in 2003.[1]

Noteworthy positions held

1871 Chicago

In January 2014, Tullman became CEO of 1871, the non-profit startup hub located in The Merchandise Mart in Chicago, Illinois and of its parent, the Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center (CEC).[3]

Founded in May 2012, the 75,000 square-foot facility is the home to over 325 digital startups.[3] Tullman and the 1871 team aim to provide Chicago entrepreneurs community, education, and inspiration by providing members access to hundreds of mentors, classes, lectures, seminars, and panels.[4]

1871 has numerous partners in different industries, including, but not limited to:

Recently, Tullman has helped establish The Bunker,[5] the veteran run startup incubator.

Law career

Tullman practiced law from the time he was admitted to the Bar in 1970 until 1980, specializing in large-scale class action cases and Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases.[2] In 1974, he was admitted on special petition to the Bar of the United States Supreme Court.[1] He retired from law to found CCC Information Services.[2]

Written works

Tullman has written, lectured and been interviewed on a number of legal and career issues. He has contributed chapters to several books, including Life After Law and Innovating Chicago Style. He also wrote the preface for You Need to be a Little Crazy by Barry Moltz, and his business ventures are included in a more recent book by Robert Jordan entitled How They Did It.

Tullman currently writes The Perspiration Principles, which appears weekly on Inc. Magazine's website, Inc.com.[6] The articles published on Inc. served as the foundation for Tullman's book series, The Perspiration Principles. He is also the author of HindSight, a newsletter on current topics of interest to entrepreneurs and managers.

Disruptive Innovation in education

Throughout his career in higher education, Tullman has been a proponent of revolutionizing the industry through disruptive innovation which is Clayton M. Christensen's term to describe new, rapidly iterated innovations that start from the bottom of traditional industries by providing small-scale and relatively inexpensive solutions (which quickly expand and improve) and which disrupt those existing marketplaces by displacing earlier, out-of-date programs with less expensive, faster and more effective solutions typically based on emerging new technologies.

As an early adopter of this philosophy, Tullman was among the first to bring disruptive innovation to for-profit education as evidenced in his work at Kendall College, Experiencia, and Tribeca Flashpoint Media Arts Academy.[7] In each of these education ventures, Tullman sought to create educational environments that fed creativity while providing skill sets for future successful employment in the new digital world:

Tullman is also an outspoken opponent of tenure in education and the turf wars and lack of interdepartmental collaboration among faculty.[8]

Tullman's innovations in education have been consistent with the high-end vocational education visions shared by Sir Ken Robinson, David Brooks, and Thomas Friedman, but have the additional benefit of being actually implemented and in use today.

Howard A. and Judith Tullman art collection

The Howard A. and Judith Tullman art collection is among the largest and most diverse collections of contemporary realist art in America.[9] The collection contains upwards of 1,300 pieces, more than 250 of which line the halls of Tribeca Flashpoint Media Arts Academy.[1]

In addition to being an active collector, Tullman has also lent and donated art from the Tullman Collection to museums[10] including:

Tullman has worked closely over the last 30 years with various artists and, some years ago, created a limited edition work of art in collaboration with the internationally known artist, Christo, which was used as a fund raising project for the Museum of Contemporary Art, where he previously served as a Trustee. The Tullman Collection has been featured in numerous catalogs including a major publication of 61 paintings from the Collection by the Mobile Museum of Art.

Works

Further reading

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Black, Johnathan (May 2011). "Howard Tullman's Flashpoint Academy: A Digital-Arts Alternative to the Four-Year College Degree". Chicago Magazine. Retrieved November 27, 2012.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Kravitz, Seth. "The Magic Man: How Howard Tullman has Produced the Ultimate Innovators' Playpen". Technori. Retrieved November 27, 2012.
  3. 1 2 http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20131123/BLOGS11/131129895/howard-tullman-takes-over-1871
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 http://www.1871.com
  5. ↑ http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20140627/BLOGS11/140629836/1871-goes-into-the-bunker-for-veteran-led-startups
  6. ↑ Tullman, Howard. "The Perspiration Principles". Inc.com. Inc. Magazine. Retrieved November 27, 2012.
  7. ↑ Meyer, Ann (January 14, 2008). "Howard Tullman provides business lesson in running for-profit schools". Chicago Tribune.
  8. ↑ Tullman, Howard. "Why the Chicago Teachers' Strike Will Help Education Entrepreneurs". Inc.com. Inc. Retrieved April 22, 2013.
  9. ↑ "The Things Make the Art". American Art Collector (77): 56–61. April 2008. Retrieved November 20, 2012.
  10. ↑ Rose, Joshua; Terri Dodd (October 2006). "The Tullman Collector". American Art Collector (12): 72–81.
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